Turf Quote

[Easttt]

Hi all,

I had a quote for laying new turf and some edging. It isn’t a big area - turf required 4m2. The quote also includes removing existing grass and weeds, then rotavating the soil to remove persistent weeds and topsoil.

The quote is: £644 inc labour and materials.

Does that seem excessive?

No

They will need a skip for the grass,then they have to hire or use their own rotavator to take the lawn up, then they have to weed it, and lay the new turf.

Ask them about nematodes, you need to do it twice yearly and it stops the badgers digging up your lawn.

@FinallyFluid there’s no skip. There’s barely any grass as it went very patchy in an already small area so minimal clearance.

We don’t have any badgers.

It's about right. You're probably paying for two days labour. I had an area of about 5m x7m turfed, I cleared the area myself. The turf cost £300 ish, topsoil around £200, labour was £250. You could lay the turf yourself and save money of course.

I used topsoil and grass seed for an area of about 4 square metres a couple of years ago. The grass there looks just the same as the turf laid earlier that year, although I don’t mind weeds in my grass at all (lucky as the expensive turf had plenty after a year).

@rosiedeus - thank you that’s useful to know. I’m getting another quote so it’ll be interesting to see. If that fails I may try laying wildflower turf.

@Scampersaur - I tried that last year (twice) but the grass has died off so it’ll be a waste of time trying again. Shocking your expensive turf has weeds!

We were quoted £500 for an area of 7m2 as part of a larger garden project (no removal of existing grass needed)
I thought it was excessive so we decided to do it ourselves but maybe I was wrong!